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Concessions continue to receive billions of euros from the state budget, no broken contracts. What is said in the draft budget of 2024?

2023-11-01 10:48:50Biznes SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

Concessions continue to receive billions of euros from the state budget, no

Although part of the concessions are under investigation, the 2024 draft budget foresees a separate item for the payments it will make and the risks it continues to carry. In the relation it is clearly stated that no concession will be terminated. "The Ministry of Finance and Economy evaluates and approves in advance all concessionary and public private partnership (PPP) projects as well as any changes to them, from the point of view of individual or group implications for budget expenditures, budget deficit, sustainability of public debt and liabilities eventual contingencies. The total amount of annual net payments made by general government units, which result from concession contracts or public private partnership (PPP), as a rule, should not exceed the limit of 5 percent of the actual tax revenue of the previous budget year ", it says textually in the relation. Currently, 11 concession contracts or public private partnerships (PPP) are active, some of which are under investigation by the court. 

In the relation, it is stated that regarding compliance with Article 4/2 of Law no. 9936 dated 26.06.2008 "On the management of the budget system", where it is determined that: "...the total amount of annual net payments, made by the units of of the general government, which result from the concession contract or public private partnership (PPP), as a rule, should not exceed the limit of 5 percent of the actual tax revenues of the previous budget year...", results that:

For the year 2024, the allowed limit of net payments for concessionary/PPP contracts, of 5% of the actual expected tax revenue of 2023, is about ALL 29.8 billion.

For the year 2024, the annual net payments that are expected to be made by the general government units for the concession/PPP contracts, amount to about 14.3 billion ALL.

Regarding the actual progress of concessionary payments at the 9-month level for the year 2023, a summary picture is given below:

The budget funds allocated according to the plan with changes for the year 2023 reported by the relevant Contracting Authorities, with the destination of budget support for concessionary/PPP contracts, result in a total of about 13.08 billion ALL. Of these, about ALL 5.11 billion are investments and about ALL 7.97 billion are current expenses.

Compared to the actual payments of 2022, which reached the value of about 12.64 billion ALL, the planned payments for 2023 are about 3.5% higher or about 443.7 million ALL more.

The actual payments for the 9-month period 2023 result in the amount of about 7.98 billion ALL or 61% of the annual plan with changes for 2023. Of these, the highest level of payments was realized in the month of March with about 1.54 billion ALL or 19.3% of the payments actual 9 months:

The highest payment made in the month of March is the payment of about 510 million ALL for the contract "Improvement, Construction, Operation and Maintenance of Arbri Road", payment which constitutes 33% of the total actual payments made in the month of March.

Compared to the same period of 2022, the actual payments for the 9th month of 2023 are about 1.3 billion lek lower or about 14% less, a decrease which is dedicated to the lower payments made mainly for the contracts:

"Improvement, Construction, Operation and Maintenance of Arbri Street", where the actual payments for the month of 2023 result in 1.08 billion lek lower than the 9th month of 2022. This achievement refers to the payment schedule, according to the provisions of the concession contract in question, since in annual terms, the entire payment plan of this contract for the year 2023 is about 3.3% or 96 million ALL plus "Financing, establishment and operation of the service of scanning containers and other vehicles in the Republic of Albania", where the actual payments for 9 months 2023 are about 284 million ALL lower than 9 months 2022, influenced by the fact that even in annual terms the total payment plan for 2023 is about 16.5% or about 318 million ALL lower than its actual payments in the year 2022.

In addition to the specified annual payments, other payments were made in installments stemming from the renegotiation process of this contract in 2021, in order to cope with the impact of the consequences caused by the situation of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

 "Construction of Landfill, incinerator and rehabilitation of existing landfills in Tirana and electricity production", where the actual payments for the 9th month of 2023 are about 122.5 million ALL lower than the same period a year ago.

Meanwhile, for the contract "Construction, operation and transfer of the incinerator for the processing of urban waste of the Municipality of Fier", for the year 2023, the Contracting Authority (MIE) has not reported on the payment plan, while the actual payments for the period 9 monthly 2022 was in the value of about ALL 376.4 million.

 


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